Table of Contents
Foreword Luke Harding vii
Prologue 1
1 Start 10
2 Vladimir Putin's mysterious friend 18
3 The shadow of the past 26
4 Commerzbank and its lies 39
5 Mossack Fonseca's role in the Syrian war 50
6 From the Waffen-SS to the CIA and Panama 70
7 The football factory 87
8 On fishing, finding and fine art 95
9 A view of the White House 102
10 Sparks fly 111
11 Fear and trepidation 121
12 The Siemens millions 129
13 'Regarding my meeting with Harry Potter…' 141
14 A secret meeting with Alpine views 154
15 Mossfon Holdings 165
16 Spirit of Panama 176
17 The world is not enough 182
18 The looting machine 192
19 Secret meetings in the Komitèrom 209
20 At the mercy of monsters 217
21 The red nobility 223
22 The Gas Princess and the Chocolate King 233
23 Those German banks 244
24 A raid by the Vikings of finance 255
25 Dead-end trails 265
26 United by marriage, united by money 273
27 Star, star, Mega Star 286
28 The fourth man and FIFA 291
29 The 99 per cent and the future of tax havens 302
30 The cold heart of the offshore world 314
Epilogue 327
The revolution will be digitized: a statement John Doe 345
Acknowledgements 351
Glossary 355
Notes 359
Index 373